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had seen this season ; not a single fluke was observed. From 
what I have adduced, we may infer that salt acts as a preven¬ 
tive, both internally as a medicine and externally as a land 
dresser and purifier. Thus it may be that the inward doses had 
to a certain extent injured propagation, and that any vitality which 
might have remained in the deposited ova had been destroyed by the 
salt dressed pasture on which they fell. 
Professor Simonds recommends the following preparation : 
Ground oilcake, peameal, one Winchester bushel each ; salt 
and powdered aniseed, 4lbs. each ; and sulphate of iron, ilb. 
well mixed, and half-a-pint to be given daily. This com¬ 
pound is said to be highly beneficial in maintaining the 
strength of the animals as well as having a tendency to 
destroy the parasites. The Arabs, when they discover the 
malady, drive their flocks to the salt bush, which they have, 
4 from long practical experience, found to answer best. For 
my pwn* part I like the salt and .lime, with good food and 
shelter as recommended to Mr. Twentyman. This treatment 
can be continued for any length jof time without any bad 
effects on the constitution of the sheep, one agent balancing 
the other ; and my idea is, that when their elements come 
together in the chemical laboratory of the body a decom¬ 
position takes place, and chlorine is liberated from the salt, 
which so impregnates the bile that the parasites are destroyed. 
I may here note that I have found the salt and lime treat¬ 
ment equally as efficacious in hoose in calves and stirks, 
caused by the small thread worms in the* bronchial tubes. It 
is an old remedy, and was a great favourite' with the late 
Thomas Mann, of Aigle Gill—a man well known to most of 
you, and whose common-sense views of the treatment of 
horses and cattle, stamped him as one of the first practitioners 
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